Unblocked


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The footings are all in and the lot is jammed full with piles and piles of concrete blocks: hundreds, thousands, maybe.

Now things will start moving for reals.

Tomorrow afternoon we go to pick out plumbing fixtures (faucets, tubs, etc.). I don't really need to be involved in that, since we've already decided on most of it and I trust Mrs to handle the rest. But I'm going anyway, because it's a good excuse for taking a half day from work. This builder has a 'project manager' working for him, and she is going to meet us at the store and help us through the process of choosing all the various things we have to choose. The last builder just made us an appointment with one of the salespeople, and she wasn't super-interested in our side of the transaction (and got 1/4 of our orders wrong). Hopefully, this will be a better experience.

We're writing a check to the builder today for our first change order. Because the house is on a slope, the back foundation will be pretty tall. So I've asked the builder to put a ground-level storage room back there. It's just going to be a concrete floor and some rough walls - nothing fancy. But it will be 10x14, so, pretty big. I'll keep the lawnmower, rakes, shovels and other bulky junk in there, and out of the garage.

In current house news, the termite inspector guy who was there last week for our annual inspection told us that we did not have a pipe connecting the dryer's exhaust vent from the inside of the house to the outside of the house. So, for two and a half years, our dryer has been blowing hot wet air, and tons of lint, directly into the crawlspace beneath the house. And nobody noticed this until Thursday. Because I hate crawling around under the house, we paid a handyman to come out and fix it. It took him three hours and two trips to the hardware store. He left covered in sweaty lint and dirt and spiderwebs.

3 thoughts on “Unblocked

  1. terraformer

    Pour the basement, don’t use blocks. At least if you can afford it, it’ll save you from potential water damage. Especially if you are concerned at all about water intrusion and/or have water issues already.

    1. cleek Post author

      those blocks are all going above ground, sitting on concrete footings. crawlspace, not basement.

      they don’t really do basements in NC.

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